Biography

Baritone Andre Chiang has been described as “vocally commanding” (Oregonian), “handsome of voice” (Opera News), and lauded with “let’s hear more from this singer” (Washington Post). Chiang’s recent and upcoming engagements include Ping (Turandot) with OperaDelaware, Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi) with Opera Mississippi, Marcello (La bohème) with Opera Las Vegas and Opera Western Reserve, and Captain Corcoran (H.M.S. Pinafore) with Opera Las Vegas, Pacific Opera Project, and Opera Grand Rapids, Escamillo (Carmen) with Opera Western Reserve and Mobile Opera, and Wáng Yuè/Nephew/Snakehead/Ensemble (Stuck Elevator) with Knoxville Opera. Previous highlights include Young Galileo/Salviati (Galileo Galilei), for which he was commercially recorded, and Ford (Falstaff) with Portland Opera; Anthony Hope (Sweeney Todd) with Virginia Opera; Lancelot in the Young Artist Matinee of Camelot at the Glimmerglass Festival; and Dandini (La cenerentola) with Dayton Opera. Chiang has also been seen with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Opera Philadelphia, the Atlanta Opera, New Orleans Opera, Portland Opera, Virginia Opera, and other American opera companies.

Competition honors include Regional Finalist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Winner of the 59th National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) 2017 Biennial Young Artist Award, and Winner of the 45th National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards Competition (NATSAA). Chiang’s Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall debut came as the Baritone soloist in the World Premiere of Martin Palmeri’s Gran Misa. Chiang has also been seen in concert with the Louisiana Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony, Rapides Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, Missouri Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, and Canterbury Voices in recent seasons singing the solos in Handel’s Messiah, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Duruflé’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, and many others.

Throughout his career, Chiang has championed the creation of new art songs and has presented nationally on demystifying the commissioning process for song and opera. His debut art song album, Choice Pages: Songs by Sterrs-Howard, Thompson, Malhotra, and Trần, releases in August 2024, on Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming platforms, and is composed of newly commissioned songs from a variety of composers. He has also been involved with world premiere operas singing Artist Martinez/Ecce Homo in Fowler’s Behold the Man and Pridament in Cummings’ Again and Again and Again. Chiang has also been featured in roles such as Older Thompson (Glory Denied) and Charlie (Three Decembers) with Painted Sky Opera, Clint (Fearless (workshop)) with OperaDelaware, and Captain Smith (A Capacity for Evil) with Opera Las Vegas. In 2025, he led a panel to further promote new American opera composition in higher education and industry wide at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and National Opera Association (NOA) joint national conference. Chiang has been granted multiple Love of Learning Awards from the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and received funding for commissioning and commercially recording new art song from a variety of underrepresented composers. He can also be heard on the commercial recording of Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei.

As an educator, Chiang was a 2018 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Intern, designated a 2019 “National Center for Voice and Speech trained Vocologist”, featured at the 2020, 2022, and 2024 NATS National Conference, and a part of the first cohort of Pan American Vocology Association – Recognized Vocologists (PAVA-RV) in 2022. He also attended the CCM Institute at Shenandoah Conservatory focusing on contemporary vocal techniques and amplified genre pedagogy. His research regarding new American art song, lower voice range extension, and inclusivity in the voice studio has been seen at national and international conferences for the NOA, NATS, PAVA, and the College Music Society (CMS). He has given recitals, master classes, and lectures around the world at institutions such as the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Belmont University, the University of Memphis, Louisiana State University, Oklahoma City University, Penn State University, the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and University of the Arts Singapore, and the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China to name a few. Notable student accomplishments include winning a district Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Audition; placing in state and regional NATS Auditions, Trumbauer Festivals, and the NFMC Young Artist Competition; and performing with the Glimmerglass Festival, Des Moines Metro Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera Las Vegas, Baton Rouge Symphony, Onstage at the Freeland, Rivertown Theaters, and Swine Palace to name a few. Students have participated in the Seraphic Fire Choral Institute, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and have studied music at the University of Miami, University of Michigan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Northern Arizona, and musical theatre at Carnegie Mellon University and Oklahoma City University. 

Chiang has also been published in a variety of magazines and journals. Recent publications include a chapter on vibrations and cancer cells in the new book published by the National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS) entitled Sing and Shout for Health: Scientific Insights and Future Directions for Vocology and a soon to be published article entitled “The Bound Breath: Transmasculine and Gender Nonconforming Singers’ Perceived Effects of Chest Binding on Singing” with the Journal of Voice. He is also a frequent contributor to Classical Singer magazine curating a series of articles about voice tools and other student focused topics.

Chiang is an Assistant Professor of Voice at Florida State University, an Instructor of Voice at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, and maintains a private online and in-person studio teaching acoustic and amplified styles. He was formerly an Assistant Professor of Voice at Emory University, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as Oklahoma State University. As an administrator, Chiang was the Artistic Director of Opera NexGen and currently is the Chair of the NFMC Young Artist Competition for Man’s Voice, Treasurer of the Southwestern Region of CMS, and Secretary and board member of the Asian Opera Alliance. For NATS, he was the Vice President of the Las Vegas Chapter, the Webmaster for the TEXOMA Region, chaired the Art Song Coalition, served on the NATS Intern Committee, and currently serves as the Chair of the Repertoire Initiatives Advisory Council.

See this link for research, writing, and teaching examples. Find a full listing of past performances here.

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